maturity date

(noun)

the time of the final payment of a loan or other financial instrument, at which point the principal (and all remaining interest) is due to be paid

Related Terms

Examples of maturity date in the following topics:

  • Corporate Bonds

    • The term corporate bond is usually applied to longer-term debt instruments with a maturity date falling at least a year after the issue date.
    • (The term commercial paper is sometimes used for instruments with a shorter maturity period. ) Sometimes, corporate bond is used in reference to all bonds with the exception of those issued by governments in their own currencies.

  • Commercial Paper

    • In the global money market, commercial paper is an unsecured promissory note with a fixed maturity of one to 364 days.
    • Commercial paper is a money-market security issued (sold) by large corporations to get money to meet short term debt obligations (for example, payroll), and is only backed by an issuing bank or a corporation's promise to pay the face amount on the maturity date specified on the note.
    • Typically, the longer the maturity on a note, the higher the interest rate the issuing institution must pay.
    • Each blue marker indicates commercial paper outstanding at that date which matures after one week.
    • All markers indicate commercial paper outstanding, maturing after December 31.

  • Factoring Accounts Receivable

    • In "maturity" factoring, the factor makes no advance on the purchased accounts; rather, the purchase price is paid on or about the average maturity date of the accounts being purchased in the batch.

  • Purchasing

    • Planned: an agreement on a specific item at an approximate date
    • Blanket: an agreement on specific terms and conditions (date and quantity and amount are not specified)
    • Model of the acquisition process for major systems in industry and defense: The process is defined by a series of phases, during which technology is defined and matured into viable concepts, which are subsequently developed and prepared for production.

  • Long-Term Loans

    • In many cases, governments print more money in order to redeem the bond at maturity.
    • Features of mortgage loans such as the size of the loan, maturity of the loan, interest rate, method of paying off the loan, and other characteristics can vary considerably.
    • Some mortgage loans may have no amortization or require full repayment of any remaining balance at a certain date; others may have negative amortization.

  • Global finance: initial considerations

    • The foreign exchange market is generally divided into five basic currency markets based on pricing procedures ruling the exchange, the time to maturity, the degree of freedom available, the convertibility of currencies, and how the currencies are quoted (Carrada-Bravo, 2003).
    • Options: An options contract "gives the option holder the right to buy or sell an underlying asset at a specified price and on a specified date" (Butler, 2003).

  • Scheduling

    • Forward scheduling involves planning tasks from the date that resources become available in order to determine the shipping date or the due date.
    • Backward scheduling involves planning tasks from the due date or required-by date in order to determine the start date and/or necessary changes in capacity.

  • Open Market Operations

    • The overall size of the Federal Reserve's holdings of Treasury securities depends principally on the growth of Federal Reserve notes; however, the amounts and maturities of the individual securities held depends on the FOMC's preferences for liquidity.
    • A sizable share of the Federal Reserve's holdings is held in Treasury securities with remaining maturities of one year or less.
    • At the end of 2004, the Federal Reserve's holdings of Treasury securities were about evenly weighted between those with maturities of one year or less and those with maturities greater than one year.

  • Establishing a resonating frame for businesses

    • To date, in an ongoing survey, my students have asked 127 business managers and 530 employees in eight countries (Belarus, Canada, China, Peru, Poland, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States) what aspects of sustainability most interest them.

  • Growth through cooperation

    • Clark recognized a long time ago that he is best at controlling the growth phase of a start-up, but is too impatient to manage a mature organization professionally.
    • He tries to choose the right time to sell new firms to competitors which are better at dealing with the maturity phase (cf.